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I am opposing PROD, I wouldn't have created the page if I didn't think he was notable. Also, there were already a few red wikilinks for him, so obviously others thought he was notable. (These were from Worlds of Wonder, Basic Role-Playing, and Ringworld (role-playing game).) Also, though Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) only mentions original creator Sandy Petersen as the designer, you can see in the graphic of the 6th edition cover that Willis is now being given co-designer credit. I've added Call of Cthulhu into the entry to reflect this.
Google claims to have 21,300 hits for "lynn willis", and though a good number of these are for other people, that still leaves thousands of hits. His Chaosium staff bio[1] credits him with being "the constant force behind Call of Cthulhu." This interview[2] describes him as "a stalwart of the gaming industry" and the "longest serving member of the Chaosium staff." If Chaosium is notable enough to get a Wikipedia entry, why shouldn't its Editor-in-Chief and "longest serving member" be notable enough for Wikipedia? If the Cthulhu RPG is notable enough, why not its current co-designer? Not to mention his other work.
Perhaps the number of redlinked wargames helped convince you that he only designed non-notable games, but that says more about the weak coverage of wargames on Wikipedia than Lynn Willis. Godsfire, at least, deserves an entry. --Groggy Dice 07:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)Reply
